Our cat has gone away

[ailbhe]

Missing: One small, elegant, black-and-white cat, answering to the name of Charcoal when she deigns to recognise you. We haven't seen her this morning for her breakfast, and she didn't come in when called. There are no Charcoal-shaped sad, flat patches on the roads around here, though, which is reassuring.

She usually sleeps on our bed, and she always comes home for breakfast. We saw her yesterday evening. We're hoping she's found a house with people who feed her cream and cheese and other nice things, and will come home when she misses us.

If you see her, tell her we'd like her to come home for ten minutes to tell us she's ok.

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[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I hope she comes home soon!

[uitlander]

I paniced the first time Angus & Mallory did this. I'd be tempted to start asking neighbours if they wouldn't mind checking their sheds if she isn't home by dusk.

This is why Mr Pratchett advises never naming a cat anything you'd be ashamedof bellowing at the top of your lungs from the doorstep whilst adorned in fluffy slippers and dressing gown.

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[ailbhe]

We're hoping she's locked in next door, with next-door's cat who also usually shows up for breakfast, but didn't today.

[artela.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
Unfortunately cats sometimes do this... lots of the time they turn up again a day or two later looking no worse for wear, just a little hungry.

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Hope she finds you again.,, For some reason, I see her hiding out in some strange crawl space only cats can reach...hide and go seek, I guess.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Have you checked the closets?

(Oh, of course you have - but mine sometimes manages to disappear for hours on end in the depths of my closets.)

[firecat]

Come home Charcoal!

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[ailbhe]

I hate closets, to the extent that we took out almost all the cupboards in the kitchen and replaced them with open shelves, and took out the fitted wardrobes in the bedroom and replaced them with hanging rails and little chests of drawers.

But I did open the cupboard under the stairs and make loving noises... And we checked the garden shed...

Every time the catflap opens, I jump. I am going to be *so* embarrassed when she walks back in saying "Like you tell me where you are all the time. Huh. Where's my dinner?"

[arwen-lune.livejournal.com]

Asking the immediate neighbours to check their sheds and garages usually worked for us. Now we just have Padoek, who's 12 and doesn't do a whole lot of disappearing anymore.

[rosefox]

I hope she comes home soon, safe, and sound.

[nitoda]

I hope you find her soon!

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[astrogeek.livejournal.com]

When my parents were first married they had a cat which they named Trevor as a joke which stuck. Several months after they'd moved in to their new house, one of the neighbours dropped by and invited my mum and Trevor round for a drink - my mum was rather embarassed that the neighbour thought that she stood on the back step at dusk every night calling her husband!